Chairman7w

Wow - you guys got some great stories. My name's Ed and I've been simming as long as it's been around, but never into the detail that so many here are. I envy your knowledge and skills and I'm very eager to learn more. Here's me as a green mosquito-wing in '86, sneaking over to get a pic by the Wing Commander's F-16. I was a lowly Public Affairs scrub, but worked my way up as editor of the base paper, and it was runner up in the '88 TAC Media Contest, and I was '88 Photojournalist of the Year. I'd like to think I single-handedly won the Cold War for the US, due to my rugged build and prodiguous strength, I'm sure the Russians just threw in the towel when they saw my pic. I'd spend my nights in my barrack's room on my Atari 800XL, flying F-15 Strike Eagle, and the venerable MS Flight Simulator... I remember landing and taking off from Meigs Field (Rest in Peace). I had the coolest book "Flight Simulator Adventures" or something like that, that had a bunch of missions it would outline that you would try and do (landing on Golden Gate Bridge, etc). That was a blast, and not very easy on that old slide-show flight sim. Anymore, I'm a 50-yr old Sales Rep for an LED sign manufacturer (contact me if you need any LED signs! Big, small, giant, indoor, outdoor - whatever ya need!) and father of one son, 23, who graduates college tomorrow (Sac State); and one step-daughter who graduated from UC Santa Cruz 2 years ago. I spend most of my time watching FSX reboot cause my weak PC crashes all the time, but I'm this close (holding fingers 1/2" apart!) to buying a new gaming PC to run it in style! When I'm not flying in the virtual world, I'm playing basketball with my son and our crew, or playing PS4. This seems like an awesome community and I'm happy to be part of it.